A radio station in Chicago, Illinois (Q101) played The White Stripes new album Icky Thump without their permission. It then became apparent that the copy of the album that was played on the radio was a bootleg version and now a version they received from the White Stripes or their record label. Lead singer, Jack White, personally called up the radio station and ripped on the studio and the DJ. Jack White was in Spain when he made the call. To read more about the story click here.

Atreyu has been hard at work at a new album. They have put up a new song for you to hear, but hold your horses, its not as easy as just click and listen. They’ve created a mini game in which you must assemble the song in the proper order. Upon winning the game you will receive the new song, titled Becoming The Bull. So are you ready to play:

Click here to listen to the new Atreyu song, Becoming The Bull

The Bled recently posted to their myspace their new album title and further updates about their upcoming tour on Projekt Revolution Tour. Read more:

Hey bears

Lots of news. First off, a huge thank you to all the canadian MCR fans and of course MCR themselves for showing us an amazing time in the great white north. Everyone was really fuckin cool to us, and made a little hardcore band from az feel at home when we were totally out of our element ( we usually don’t get the opportunity to bang our heads in soldout arena’s ). We can’t wait to come back up and grab some harvey burgers and timbits with ya’lls.

We are proud to be a part of this years zumiez couch tour, starting tomorrow at fiesta mall in mesa az, and then again on saturday the 9th in dallas (plano) texas at windhaven mall. Both shows are free and will have an awesome skateboard demonstration. So come out and mall rat it up with us, I’ll teach you how to kickflip.

After that we will be enjoying a month and a half off before embarking on one of the craziest and most diverse tours we’ve ever been a part of. PROJEKT REVOLUTION will span the entire US and feature the talents of LINKIN PARK, MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE, TAKING BACK SUNDAY, HIM, PLACEBO, SAOSIN and a few others. Basically, there is something for everybody on this tour so don’t blow it.

Immediately after that we will be joining up with 2 of our favorite bands to tour with THE USED and SAY ANYTHING on the “ROCKSTAR presents Get A Life Tour”. And then its off to Australia and new zealand on international taste of chaos tour which also features our friends in The Used, we can’t get enough of those dudes. As you can see we are well on our way to covering the globe on our summer/fall tours. Stay tuned and check up on our myspace page (www.myspace.com/thebled) for exact dates and details.

Oh yeah, and we recently finished recording our new disc with brian mcternan in baltimore md. The record is called Silent Treatment and will feature 11 new songs. I’m not gonna barage you with a bunch of adjectives and cliche descriptions of what it sounds like, but just know that we are more confident and excited to be in this band now because of this record. There was a time that I wasn’t sure if we knew how to write this kind of music anymore, but once we got started what came out was so natural and raw that we have been reinvigorated as friends and as artists. We are very proud and hope that you guys get into it as much as we are. I don’t have many details as far as a release date, but we expect Silent Treatment to hit stores in the early fall. Again, check our myspace page for details, we will update that shit as it comes along. Thanks again for reading all this, and keeping up with what’s going on in our world. See you guys real freakin soon.

Love jeremy ray,

The Bloodies.

Here it is:

Marilyn Manson – Eat Me, Drink Me, stream his new album in full

A Perfect Murder – War Of Aggression, a new song of their new album, happily titled the same as this song

Darkest Hour – Demons, a new track of their upcoming release

Chris Cornell -Carry On, listen to his new album in full (leader singer of Soundgarden and Audioslave, for those who wonder)

Yellowcard – Five Becomes Four, a new song of their upcoming release

Queens Of The Stone Age – Era Vulgaris, listen to their new album, in full, free stream

Throwdown – Holy Roller, yup it’s new material for you

The Police – The Police, take a step back in time and listen to their greatest hits, released in this compilation

Tom Petty – Highway Companion, this is a new album featuring rare songs and unreleased music, free for you to stream!

The Format has decided to give away their 2006 album, Dog Problems. Starting June 25th, for 20 days you will be able to obtaion their album in full of their website. Here is what the band had to say about the situation:

Owning our own publishing and master has allowed us the freedom to experiment,. We?d be doomed if we sat around and waited for things like radio play to come around. We?re just not that band.

We understand the reality; kids aren?t buying music. We?re going to see if we can?t pick up 20,000 new sets of ears by offering the album for free. We?re betting that the money lost on those record sales will come back when people come see us live this summer.

This will be a chance to share the album with your friends who haven’t bought it or fileshared it

Make sure to get your chance on a few album, visit The Format‘s site on June 25th, TheFormat.com

The Receiving End Of Sirens recently posted an explanation to the title of their new album, The Earth Sings Mi Fa Mi:

The title, The Earth Sings Mi Fa Mi stems from a book written by a late 16th century astronomical theorist by the name of Johannes Kepler and the publication just fascinated the band. Kepler?s theory suggested that each of the 9 planets in our solar system produced tones as they orbited the sun. Throughout the orbit, Venus would stay a consistent note that was considered the 6th in relation to the rest of the planets. As Earth would shift its tonality, it would create the effect of the notes moving from the major 6th to the minor 6th and back and forth. This is where the ?Mi Fa Mi? comes into action, symbolizing the corresponding syllables when singing a scale in relation to the notes of the earth {Do Re Mi Fa So La Ti Do}. Kepler further concurred that the Earth ?singing? Mi Fa Mi could truly stand for Misery, Famine, Misery and ultimately, that is the song the Earth and Venus continued to sing. Misery, referring to an empty place and Famine, referring to the appetite or thirst for things.

Here’s a recent update by Dillinger Escape Plan about their new album, posted on their myspace:

We start official album tracking this week in the secret underground recording location in Alaska.

Ben is flying there. Probably first class. Maybe a private jet. Cause he rolls like that. Honestly I think it’s because he wants to get there a couple days before me and Liam get there cause he needs those days of peace. We’re gonna fight one another and Steve Evetts battle royale style probably for about 90% of the time.

Liam and I are driving there because we’re fucking crusty and don’t give a fuck and we’ll probably have more adventures driving anyway. Or we’ll kill one another/ourselves because:

A) we’re both assholes
B) we have vowed to not sleep the entire time by any means necessary and he has fucking narcolepsy anyway and may fall asleep behind the wheel
C) after “Dyer’s Eve” plays for the five hundredth time with the stereo dimed he will hurl himself from the car
D) after the five hundredth Bjork song I will hurl myself from the car

Igl Aronesh

Regular updates from the studio soon. If you see me and Liam on the highway do not engage us. We are basically more or less gonna be rock n roll zombie after the first 24 hours of non-stop driving and will probably run you off the road.

Smashing Pumpkins haven’t played a concert in over 6 years until this year. Three days ago (June 2nd, 2007) they played a full set at the Rock AM Ring in N?rburgring, Germany. They also put up the whole concert for stream on their website. And maybe you don’t have time to stream, download the whole concert in too, for free. Sweetness eh? So here’s the links:

Stream The Smashing Pumpkins Concert at the Rock AM Ring
Download The Smashing Pumpkins Concert at the Rock AM Ring

Their set list is as follows (including times within the video each song starts):
01. (01:44) Today
02. (05:13) Bullet With Butterfly Wings
03. (09:49) United States
04. (20:39) Bleeding The Orchid
05. (25:39) Stand Inside Your Love
06. (29:27) Cherub Rock
07. (34:13) Shame
08. (40:14) Silverfuck
09. (50:50) Thirty-Three
10. (54:47) To Sheila
11. (60:05) Tonight, Tonight
12. (64:43) Tarantula
13. (68:49) Starz
14. (72:53) Zero
15. (75:25) Disarm
16. (78:17) 1979
17. (82:30) Untitled
18. (90:12) Gossamer

Enjoy this for now and prepare for 07/07/07, Smashing Pumpkins latest release Zeitgeist.

It’s been 5 years since Greeley Estates was formed and Dallas has decided to step away from the band for a few reasons. Here’s a lengthy post by Dallas of Greeley Estates:

hey everybody! five years ago when ryan and i started this band, we had no idea that our lil’ project writing songs together would end up going anywhere. we only had one goal for ourselves: maybe we’d play a show by the end of the first year, and if we didn’t, hey, at least we tried.

now, 5 years, 500,000 miles, 1000 shows, 2 entire warped tours, 1 taste of chaos, 7 national & canadian tours, 2 wrecked vans, 3 totalled trailers, and 1 rolled rv later, i’m blown away to think of where our band has ended up!

a series of occurrences lead me to the difficult decision of stepping away from greeley estates, the most important of which being my upcoming plunge into fatherhood. (my wife and i are expecting a baby girl sometime in the next month or so!) this along with some other crazy things happening in my life are putting a strain on my ability to tour as much as we have in the past.

this of course isn’t fair to the other dudes, so we began searching for someone to fill in my spot as a touring guitarist with the intention that he would eventually be able to take over the official lead guitar spot. God provided us with alex, a super rad and talented dude who was able to fill in for me. Well, things progressed a lot faster than any of us had originally thought, and alex is officially now the new guitarist, which i think is a great move for the band. from what the dudes tell me he’s awesome in each and every way. i’m stoked to see what he brings to the table.

it was originally the thought that i’d be involved in the writing and recording of the new album, but i’m sorry to say that since then, the other dudes have decided that they’d prefer me not to be involved and to make a clean start on this album. i can’t say i’m not disappointed by this, but i understand where they’re coming from and they feel it will be best for the album.

anywhoo, this makes my final show at the clubhouse in tempe, az on june 20th my official last hurrah with greeley estates! if you’re able to make it out, i’d definitely love to see you all and say goodbye! i’m requesting that we play some songs we either never play or haven’t played in a while (atom doesn’t lie, always, secret, etc.) so it should be a pretty rad show! come see us butcher your favorites! 🙂

that being said, I just want to take the time to let you know how much all of you fans has meant to me. you’ve shown more love and support than i deserve or could ever begin to repay you for. I realize that we’re nothing special and that we’re just dudes with instruments strapped around our necks and hopefully we’ve never treated you like you weren’t worth our time, because you’ve meant everything to us. thank you for always making us feel welcome in your cities and for taking the time to hang out with us at the shows and at denny’s/tacobell/mcdonalds/whatever happened to still be open at 2am after the shows.

IF YOU NEVER REMEMBER ANYTHING ABOUT ME AGAIN, PLEASE REMEMBER THIS: each and every one of you is important, and your lives have meaning and value, God loves all of you, and you’re no matter how crappy life gets, you’re never really alone. if i’ve ever done anything to make you feel otherwise, i can’t begin to say how sorry i am for it. i love you guys and i’ll miss you.

thanks to the other dudes i’ve had the privilege of sharing my life with these past 5 years, ryan, brandon, and brian, you guys are the best! I wish you all the good things in the world as the band plugs on. applebizzle, I miss you too and hope teaching is going well. brad, I got 5 stars on six on expert. you know what I mean. stewart and judy teggart, thanks for the opportunities and guidance. trent knight, thanks for getting me through my ER rotation and for believing in our band. ed treat, thanks for all the gear you’ve leant us throughout the years. tim towner, thanks for being so involved with our band for so many years. andrew, shane, anton thanks for putting up with us and for keeping us safe on the road and the tours managed so well. thanks to everyone who’s fed, housed, or prayed for our band. we appreciate it.

ok! so i’ll see you guys on the 20th of june at the clubhouse! adios dudes and dudettes!